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A 15-Bore Flintlock Sporting GunBy Harvey Walklate 1 Mortimer, London, Circa 1760
1 December 2009, 14:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,200 inc. premium
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By Harvey Walklate 1 Mortimer, London, Circa 1760
By Harvey Walklate 1 Mortimer, London, Circa 1760
With rebrowned two-stage barrel engraved with foliage at the breech and signed in script along the top flat (engraving refreshed), silver spider fore-sight, gold-lined touch-hole, engraved tang grooved for sighting, signed border engraved flat bevelled lock (some wear) decorated with a flower head on the stepped tail and with gilt pan (steel an old replacement), engraved safety-catch, figured full stock carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, brass mounts comprising foliate engraved pierced ribbon side-plate with central loop, vacant escutcheon with engraved beaded border, butt-plate engraved with a flower head and foliage on the heel tang, trigger-guard with acorn finial and engraved with a flower head in a diamond-shaped panel on the bow, and wooden ramrod with iron worm, London proof marks and maker's mark
103.5 cm. barrel
103.5 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Harvey Walklate Mortimer (1753-1819) received his apppointment to King George III in 1783




